Browsing Tag: Punjab

How Kairon changed the face of Punjab

A Chief Minister of Punjab for more than eight consecutive years, Partap Singh Kairon turned Punjab into an economic powerhouse. A no-nonsense administrator, he did not let procedures come in the way. The death anniversary of this builder of modern Punjab falls today (February 6.)
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Sikh History on Display in California

As a Sikh child who grew up in the west, my knowledge and experience with Sikh history came mostly through stories and books. Aside from occasional visits to India, what I knew and saw of Sikh history was predominantly left to my imagination that provided to me a visual to the words I read or the static pictures I saw.
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Punjab: Colonial discourse and beyond

Conclusively, we can understand.....The seeds of European and western ideology that were sown almost four generations ago, have now grown into trees where the youth of Punjab of either side, craves for an escape from its land and place of origin.
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The New Curiosity Stop

The verdant township of Anandpur Sahib, at the foothills of the Shivaliks in Punjab, has always drawn tourists by the hordes. But this time, it is not just the historic gurdwaras that is drawing them to one of the most sacred places for the Sikh community.
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Punjab, bread basket of India, hungers for change

"The crisis in Punjab is very deep," said Sanjay Sharma, the regional bureau chief for the Times of India newspaper. Since the early 1990s, successive state governments had failed to grasp the importance of industrialization, he said.
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Poster Campaign ~ Message to Voters [OP-ED]

Freedom, justice, fight against drugs and alcohol, education, jobs, healthcare, access to clean water, are just some of the subjects covered in the IPD Punjab Poll Poster campaign. These targeted areas will hopefully get people thinking about the necessity of voting in these State elections.
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Miri Piri Academy ~ 2012-13 Enrollment Now Open!

Miri Piri Academy is now accepting applications for the 2012-2013 school year. Students will be accepted in 3rd to 11th grade.
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A Foundation for a FoundNation

You know it is really odd for me, as a third-generation Thai-Sikh to be writing for an Egyptian web site about a Found Nation. The mystery of how this comes about is quite interesting to consider in its entirety.
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HC restores voting rights of Sehajdhari Sikhs in SGPC Polls

The petitioners had submitted that the original Act declared Sahjdhari Sikhs as qualified electors for SGPC elections and the apex court had in numerous judgments held the state could not regulate the definition of religion.
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'Virasat-e-Khalsa' dedicated to humanity

Hailed as a "wonder in the making", the Khalsa Heritage complex had been conceived on a scale with global perspective and located amidst rolling hills on a sprawling 100-acre estate inspired by the nearby Himalayan Mountains.
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